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Student Blog: It's Good To Be Alive!

Student Blog: It's Good To Be Alive!

by Student Blogger: Zach Alderdice — April 11, 2023

Last semester as part of Lab, I was the assistant stage manager (as well as the assistant script coordinator) for Ibsen's A Doll's House.

BWW Review: Studio Tenn's 19-20 Season Opens With High-Spirited MAMMA MIA!

BWW Review: Studio Tenn's 19-20 Season Opens With High-Spirited MAMMA MIA!

by Jeffrey Ellis — August 28, 2019

Directed with his signature creative flair, boundless imagination and penchant for fun by Benji Kern, Studio Tenn's interim artistic director, Mamma Mia! features a stellar cast of performers bringing the show to life with the expected verve and energy that the ABBA score virtually demands.

BWW Review: Studio Tenn's Holiday Season Offering of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

BWW Review: Studio Tenn's Holiday Season Offering of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

by Jeffrey Ellis — December 14, 2018

Before Broadway comes calling for Hatty Ryan King, the young Nashville actress with an enviable resume (the Lipscomb University sophomore is a Spotlight Award winner, was a finalist for The Jimmy Award, has worked with theater companies both community-oriented and professional and has proven herself

SAVE THE DATE: Nashville Theater Calendar for December 10, 2018

SAVE THE DATE: Nashville Theater Calendar for December 10, 2018

by Jeffrey Ellis — December 10, 2018

Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap for your entertainment pleasure, including a number of holiday season offerings to put you in the Christmas spirit, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee.

SAVE THE DATE: Nashville Theater Calendar for November 26, 2018

SAVE THE DATE: Nashville Theater Calendar for November 26, 2018

by Jeffrey Ellis — November 26, 2018

Here's hoping you had a splendid Thanksgiving holiday weekend and that you're settling in for another action-packed season of events and shows to make Christmas 2018 sparkle even more! Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the effort

BWW Review: BIG LOVE, A PLAY, or 50 Brides for 50 Brothers

BWW Review: BIG LOVE, A PLAY, or 50 Brides for 50 Brothers

by Jeffrey Ellis — February 26, 2018

Who'd have thought that a play written in 2000 and based upon a work by Aeschylus from 463 BC (give or take a year or two) would prove to be so timely in the 21st Century? Yet that is exactly what Big Love, a play by Charles Mee, directed by Amanda Card and produced by Tamara Todres, Kristin McCalle

BWW Review: Perfect Timing for A SNOWY DAY at Nashville Children's Theatre

BWW Review: Perfect Timing for A SNOWY DAY at Nashville Children's Theatre

by Jeffrey Ellis — February 5, 2018

What perfect timing! Kudos to Nashville Children's Theatre executive artistic director Ernie Nolan and education director Alicia Lark Fuss (who does double duty as director of the play) for their impeccable midwinter choice of A Snowy Day as the venerable company's first show of 2018.

BWW Review: Ashdown, White Lead Compelling HAMLET at Nashville Shakespeare Festival

BWW Review: Ashdown, White Lead Compelling HAMLET at Nashville Shakespeare Festival

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 26, 2018

Wonderfully complex - and somehow unexpected and altogether authentic - performances from Sam Ashdown as Hamlet and Cheryl White as his mother Gertrude are enough reason to experience Nashville Shakespeare Festival's production of Hamlet (now onstage at Belmont University's Troutt Theatre through Su

HAMLET's Cheryl White on Making the Transition from TV to Stage

HAMLET's Cheryl White on Making the Transition from TV to Stage

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 2, 2018

With Nashville Shakespeare Festival's annual Winter Shakespeare production set to open Thursday night Denice Hicks' staging of Hamlet, starring Sam Ashdown actress Cheryl White, who plays Gertrude, found time between rehearsals to talk about the production.

First Night's Top Ten for 2018 Announced in Nashville

First Night's Top Ten for 2018 Announced in Nashville

by Jeffrey Ellis — December 29, 2017

First Night's Top Ten for 2018 - critic Jeffrey Ellis' annual review of the best in Tennessee theater were revealed last night during a live Facebook broadcast, with the hosts of Midwinter's First Night (Ashley Wolfe, J.

Nashville Shakes Offers New Year's Eve 'Sneak Peek' at 2018's HAMLET

Nashville Shakes Offers New Year's Eve 'Sneak Peek' at 2018's HAMLET

by Jeffrey Ellis — November 28, 2017

Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites lovers of theater and The Bard to herald the arrival of 2018 and to celebrate the company's 30th Anniversary Season with a sneak peek of the upcoming production of Hamlet during their fifth annual Winter Shakespeare Open House at Belmont University's Troutt

Nashville Children's Theatre's 2017-18 Season Continues With MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS

Nashville Children's Theatre's 2017-18 Season Continues With MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS

by BWW News Desk — October 26, 2017

What do you get when you introduce a daydreaming house painter to a dozen delightful penguins? A flipper-flapping musical tale that will make you believe in the power of ingenuity and determination, according to Nashville Children's Theatre's executive artistic director Ernie Nolan, who describes it

Nashville Children's Theatre's 2017-18 Season Continues With MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS

Nashville Children's Theatre's 2017-18 Season Continues With MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS

by Jeffrey Ellis — October 17, 2017

What do you get when you introduce a daydreaming house painter to a dozen delightful penguins? A flipper-flapping musical tale that will make you believe in the power of ingenuity and determination, according to Nashville Children's Theatre's executive artistic director Ernie Nolan, who describes it

BWW Review: Nashville Rep's Stylish Take on Jane Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

BWW Review: Nashville Rep's Stylish Take on Jane Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

by Jeffrey Ellis — September 10, 2017

There is no mistaking the incisive wit of Jane Austen's rather genteel evisceration of the British aristocracy to be found in Sense and Sensibility, the thoroughly delightful and completely engaging adaptation by Kate Hamill that opens Nashville Repertory Theatre's 2017-18 season.

Nashville Children's Theatre Reveals Cast & Crew for 2017-18 Season

Nashville Children's Theatre Reveals Cast & Crew for 2017-18 Season

by Jeffrey Ellis — August 29, 2017

Nashville Children's Theatre, the nation's oldest professional theatre for young audiences today announces full casting and creative teams for the 2017-2018 season, opening the theater's 87th season - its first with programming designed by new executive artistic director Ernie Nolan.

GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI for June 9, 2017

GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI for June 9, 2017

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 9, 2017

GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI! Welcome to Friday, June 9, 2017 - we're awfully glad to have you here! It's a big weekend in Nashville, maybe the biggest ever, thanks to the perfect storm of events and celebrations all across the region.


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